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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
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Monday, November 26, 2012

"Dreams of a Life" examines the life of a woman found dead in a London flat after three years

The new DVD for “Dreams of a Life” has a featurette “Recurring
Dreams”, showing interviews with the filmmaker Carol Morley and various
participants. At one point, Carol says something like, “as adults, we leave the
control of our families, and often they don’t really know what we’re all about, although the people we engage on our own as adults do know us.” That is one thing some people don’t like
about modern individualism. Later, one
of the late Joyce Vincent’s (identified below) friends says she will always
wonder what is going on when a coworker
doesn’t show up. I’ve had that feeling,
particularly a couple decades ago. One
time, someone for whom I experienced morning “Erwartung” didn’t appear, and it
turned out he had been injured in a softball game.

The movie is a docudrama patching together the life of Joyce
Vincent, a woman who was discovered dead, as a decomposed skeleton, in her flat
three years after her apparent death in December 2003. The television was still on, as if the power
had never cut off despite unpaid bills.
The body was so decomposed that the coroner could not determine cause of
death. But she was only 38 when she
died. It’s easy to wonder about pills –
but were they found.

The film comprises lots of interviews with friends and
coworkers, and reconstructions of her life played by Zawe Ashton.

Joyce seems not to have used the Internet and remained
reclusive as she lived in a secluded flat above Shopping City in London. Yet, her life had its moments, including meeting
Nelson Mandela. Her family and sisters
lost contact with her for at least a year or two before her death. She held odd
jobs, but had left a clerical job where many people knew her in March
2003. A man had even taken her in for a
while. She had said that she did not
want to have mixed-raced children by a white father.

If something happened to me when I was alone in the house,
it could be a while before I was found.
I think that the volumes of stuff on the Internet (and my books) would
give a pretty good record of what I had been all about, and what I
believed. That is, unless there was a
real catastrophe that destroyed our civilization, like an EMP attack.

We know much less about one another than people did in
earlier generations. Families and
communities are often less cohesive, and that could threaten our
sustainability.

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